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    Manage Your Stress

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    Cortisol is a hormone released from the adrenal gland when the body is under stress. That stress could come from a variety of sources -

    • unexpected life circumstances
    • work
    • family
    • a hectic busy lifestyle
    • a life change, planned or unplanned
    • exercise
    • physical or emotional trauma …

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    RELOAD-REFRESH, Don’t start over!

    I’m starting to think NEW isn’t so NEW anymore! I think that Original is the new-NEW! That is to say that perhaps our focus should not be as much on looking for something new but rediscovering what we already possess, what was given “in” us from before the foundations of the world.  Semantics, semantics, semantics, you might say. And I will agree with you. You do know words…

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    FAITHS Community Partner and FAITHS Arts and Culture Mini-Grant Programs

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    Congregations and faith-based organizations in the five Bay Area counties are eligible to apply for a FAITHS Community Partners Mini-Grant of up to $4,000 to support the work of congregations and faith-based organizations increasing civic participation and/or providing community services to low-income residents in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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    Mayor & First Lady Host Oakland’s First Model City Summit on Women

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    Mayor Dellums & First Lady to Host Oakland’s First Model City Summit on Women

    Oakland - Mayor Ron Dellums and First Lady Cynthia Dellums will host the one-day Model City Summit on Women on February 17, 2009. This historic Oakland experience, which celebrates the many contributions of women in the Oakland Bay Area and our universal community, will provide participants with a one-of-a-kind forum to…

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